Re: [Sheflug] aargh, disk crash

[Alex Hudson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 01 October 2001 11:08, you wrote:
> Oct  1 09:49:14 linux kernel: hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }

Knackered.

> my other problem is that, in rather desperately trying to save my data
> (for some reason,
> in spite of keeping backups of most things, I don't backup my email...)
> I tried to copy
> my mozilla Inbox to a zip file; now there appears to be nothing on the
> disk.  I guess it may be time for a re-format then?
>
> bash-2.05# fsck /media/zip
> Parallelizing fsck version 1.19a (13-Jul-2000)
> fsck: fsck.auto: not found
> fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.auto for /dev/hdd4
> bash-2.05#

You can't fsck DOS disks (assuming that's what it is?). If you formatted it 
ext2, you can fsck.ext2 it. 

You may want to check out badblocks(8), that'll tell you what you already 
know. Other than that, there's not a lot you can do except to attempt to 
retrieve as much data as possible. I wouldn't bother trying to ftp it if I 
were you - can you not get hold of a spare hdd? It's usually  good option - 
if you copy from one to the other using dd and small block sizes, you'll get 
back as much of the data as possible.

Cheers,

Alex.
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